The shakes came after three consecutive quakes at Hayward last Thursday ... Stanford lies in the San Andreas fault zone, an area of high seismic activity. The San Andreas fault line runs 800 ...

How Do They Work?For centuries, people wondered what caused the Earth to shake. In the 1960s, scientists finally settled on the theory of plate tectonics, which posits that the Earth’s surface is ...

By Brian Brown, president and partner at food marketing agency Ingredient  For those living on the West Coast of North ...

A study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really matter for the generation of earthquakes. Earthquakes occur along fault lines between ...

But another force is also in the mix: the properties of the rocks in the fault zones along the plate interface. This includes both the structure of the rock as well as how the rocks are arranged ...

According to the Tunnel Seismic Prediction (TSP) - 303 Plus report, prepared by Amberg Tech AG, a tunnelling surveying business in January 2020, the fault zone was located between 13.88 km (13,882 ...

Officials said there were more fault zones and softer aggregate formations, such as the one that caused the collapse. Unless these locations are studied fully, proceeding with the work was not ...

James Hayward was sentenced to more than two years ... but said this was not the fault of the complainant, who was "clearly embarrassed to talk to a stranger about what she alleged had happened ...

Two of those earthquakes occurred within two minutes of each other. All three occurred along the Hayward fault line, which USGS notes is an active fault in the San Francisco Bay region.

A new analysis of earthquake rupture directivity provides essential insights for seismic hazard and risk assessments in urban ...

Researchers have long thought that this force is the central driver of earthquakes. But another force is also in the mix: the properties of the rocks in the fault zones along the plate interface. This ...